About the Authors

Novel N. Chegou

novel@sun.ac.za

Affiliation DST/NRF Centre of Excellence for Biomedical Tuberculosis Research and MRC Centre for Molecular and Cellular Biology, Division of Molecular Biology and Human Genetics, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Tygerberg, South Africa

Paulin N. Essone

Affiliation DST/NRF Centre of Excellence for Biomedical Tuberculosis Research and MRC Centre for Molecular and Cellular Biology, Division of Molecular Biology and Human Genetics, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Tygerberg, South Africa

Andre G. Loxton

Affiliation DST/NRF Centre of Excellence for Biomedical Tuberculosis Research and MRC Centre for Molecular and Cellular Biology, Division of Molecular Biology and Human Genetics, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Tygerberg, South Africa

Kim Stanley

Affiliation DST/NRF Centre of Excellence for Biomedical Tuberculosis Research and MRC Centre for Molecular and Cellular Biology, Division of Molecular Biology and Human Genetics, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Tygerberg, South Africa

Gillian F. Black

Affiliation DST/NRF Centre of Excellence for Biomedical Tuberculosis Research and MRC Centre for Molecular and Cellular Biology, Division of Molecular Biology and Human Genetics, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Tygerberg, South Africa

Gian D. van der Spuy

Affiliation DST/NRF Centre of Excellence for Biomedical Tuberculosis Research and MRC Centre for Molecular and Cellular Biology, Division of Molecular Biology and Human Genetics, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Tygerberg, South Africa

Paul D. van Helden

Affiliation DST/NRF Centre of Excellence for Biomedical Tuberculosis Research and MRC Centre for Molecular and Cellular Biology, Division of Molecular Biology and Human Genetics, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Tygerberg, South Africa

Kees L. Franken

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Leiden University Medical Centre, Leiden, The Netherlands

Shreemanta K. Parida

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Berlin, Germany

Michel R. Klein

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Leiden University Medical Centre, Leiden, The Netherlands

Stefan H. E. Kaufmann

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Berlin, Germany

Tom H. M. Ottenhoff

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Leiden University Medical Centre, Leiden, The Netherlands

Gerhard Walzl

Affiliation DST/NRF Centre of Excellence for Biomedical Tuberculosis Research and MRC Centre for Molecular and Cellular Biology, Division of Molecular Biology and Human Genetics, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Tygerberg, South Africa

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NNC GFB SKP MRK SHK THO GW. Performed the experiments: NNC PNE AGL KS KLF. Analyzed the data: NNC KLF GFB GvdS GW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GFB GvdS PvH THO SHK GW. Wrote the paper: NNC PVH MRK SHK THO GW.